If you haven't heard Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 you haven't heard one of the most menacing sequences in all of symphonic music. Rachmaninoff is known for being a "dark" composer, but he is perhaps at his most intense here in the finale of his first. Completed at age 22.
If you receive government assistance you shouldn’t be allowed to vote until you are self sufficient. You don’t get to tell me how to run my house if you don’t pay the bills.
On this day in 1793, Scottish-Canadian explorer Sir Alexander Mackenzie reached the Pacific Ocean. It was the first crossing of the North American Continent north of Mexico, beating Lewis and Clark by 12 years, & is regarded as one of the greatest expeditions in Canadian history.
I’m done with allowing people to insult my ancestors like this.
No other group of people on Earth would allow their forebears to be insulted like this.
🇬🇧 My ancestors were the first people in history to fight to end slavery.
🇬🇧 They spread the common law across the world.
🇬🇧 They stopped Indians from burning widows alive so that they wouldn’t have to pay to feed them after their husbands had died.
🇬🇧 They stood alone against the Nazis.
🇬🇧 They invented and built the modern world with technology and medicine that started to defeat death and disease.
🇬🇧 They invented economics and democracy as we know it.
My ancestors were great people. Without them, the world would be an immeasurably darker, more wicked place.
Never again let entitled actors who known nothing about anything browbeat you into feeling shame for your ancestors.
Britain, and Western civilisation, are the greatest expressions of human flourishing in the history of the world.
Be proud of the ancestors who fought and toiled and sacrificed for that.
Don’t ever be ashamed of the greatness of our inheritance.
Live up to it.
The story of the Cumans is quite epic indeed.
They were crushed by the Mongols at the Battle of the Kalka River.
A few decades later, however, the Cumans (in the form of Mamluks) would have their revenge at the Battle of Ain Jalut under the leadership of Baybars (who was of Cuman origin).
The moral of the story is that the Story is not over until you admit defeat.
Black-pilled though we might be – we must never admit defeat.
A high school rock band played a cover of the Sheena Ringo classic song “Marunouchi Sadistic”(1999).
I love that young people are still playing older music.